Calming Techniques for the Special Needs Child

This is a "best of the best" article. Check back here after September 15 for more articles by other authors on this topic. There ...

Anxiety in Cub Scouting (Some things we'd like to tell parents)

This is post is part of " Best of the Best : Series 6: Anxiety and Stress. Anxiety in children is a topic which is very close to my hea...

Bullies and Bullying - An Introduction

This post marks the start of a series on bullies and bullying. I'm hoping to cover bullying in primary/elementary school all the way th...

Get Away from Me with Your "Perfect Kids" - Part 4: School and Sports (Final)

School I can remember taking my wife home from the school in tears because one mother had told us that she was in a panic about her son and ...

Going back to School: Some things I learned about myself in Recent Adult Education

About a month ago, I attended a Scouts " Basic Leadership 2 " course and last weekend I finished off " Basic Leadership 3 ...

Cactus Hour and Anti-Meltdown Shopping

Cactus Hour It's school holidays right now in Australia. In theory, the disappearance of the whole mum's taxi "rush-rush" ...

Defining Ourselves via our Emotional Baggage - Part Two

Last time, I looked at a couple of small examples of how the future actions of aspies are often dictated by their emotional baggage and sugg...

Defining Ourselves via our Emotional Baggage

I don't know if it's just me, just aspies or everyone but it seems that most of the deep one-on-one social and philosophical convers...

Social Anxiety Every Day

Good Morning For me, mornings at work are the worst. It seems like everyone wants to indulge in some meaningless, idle chatter. Everyone I w...

The Silent Scream

I had planned to move away from adult topics for a little while and concentrate on children's issues but the following comment provides ...

A Simple Real-Life Example of Aspie Awkwardness in a Social Situation

We often hear about aspie awkwardness in social situations but the diagnostic criteria doesn't give parents and supporters much to go on...

Visual Stimming - One of the Reasons why your Aspie child is pulling faces

Stimming is a repetitive behaviour performed by aspergers and autistic children because it "feels good" or calms them. I've c...

Link to Article: Coping with Anxiety in the Workplace.

Sorry to interrupt the whole IEP discussion thing but I just wanted to post this link to a great article I was sent today. It's a case s...